Wimpy Vikings

By Dave FoxSeattle, Washington

Globejotting mascot Sven Wondermoose chills out in front of a replica Viking ship at the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Denmark.

Have the Vikings gone soft?

A group of modern “adventurers” plans to sail from Denmark to Ireland next summer in a replica Viking ship built entirely with traditional tools and techniques. There’s just one difference between their ship and a real Viking ship. Their ship will have radar, a radio, and global positioning equipment.

“…We will try to understand how the ship and crew coped,” said Martin Brandt Djupdræt, curator of the Roskilde Viking Ship Museum, to the Associated Press.

How can you understand how the crew coped when you have enough technology on board to have pizzas helicoptered in?

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